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Charter
for the
Center
for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT)
of the California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
A.
PURPOSE | B. NEED
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NATURE AND SCOPE
This Charter for the CSULB Center for
the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies has
been unanimously approved by the CSULB College of Engineering
Faculty Council, the CSULB Academic Senate Executive
Committee, and the CSULB Provost with Concurrence of the
Council of Deans.
A.
PURPOSE
The Center for the Commercial Deployment of
Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT) is created to foster
interdisciplinary research, development, testing, and evaluation
studies related to the utilization of advanced technologies for
improving transportation systems. Its focus will be on the
deployment of advanced technologies to improve transportation
systems. A specific, near-term focus will be on improving the
agility and efficiency of ports and the multi-modal transportation
corridors serving them. The Center will conduct projects that
involve students in research, development, and professional
practice. The Center will work closely with southern
California’s transportation-related industries to develop
university, industry, and government partnerships to perform
specific projects that benefit the university, its students, and
the community.
B.
NEED
Southern California has been identified in
numerous studies as an ideal location for the development of
new-technology transportation industries. In addition, more goods
and products are shipped through the Port of Long Beach than any
other port in the United States, and the Port of Los Angeles ranks
second. Collectively, the two ports together are the third largest
in the world -- behind Singapore and Hong Kong -- in this regard.
Local governments have embarked upon an ambitious $2 billion
project to create a modern multi-modal transportation corridor to
serve these ports. The University is an ideal resource to develop
a transportation center focused on deploying technologies to
improve transportation systems in large metropolitan areas such as
Los Angeles, and to improve the efficiency of the local ports and
the transportation corridors serving them. In addition, both the
United States Department of Transportation and the United States
Transportation Command have strongly encouraged our University to
take the lead in developing a strong and effective Center for the
Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies.
C.
NATURE AND SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED
The Center will involve CSULB faculty and
students in the development of modern, fully-integrated
multi-modal transportation systems incorporating both available
off-the-shelf and breakthrough technologies. The Center will serve
as a focal point for positive change of the National
Transportation Infrastructure.
CCDoTT will pursue research, development,
testing and evaluation related to the refinement of a National
Transportation Infrastructure that will be essential for achieving
timely and cost-effective movement of goods, materials, services,
and personnel within the global marketplace.
One of the key thrusts of its activities
will be to develop a prototype of agile port facilities operating
in combination with high-speed sealift and related rapid
deployment technologies and to enhance capabilities for cargo and
personnel movement tracking. This activity will support
rapid-to-market activities by American industrial and
manufacturing companies and agricultural enterprises.
Another major thrust will be to pursue the
application of newly developed information technologies to such
multi-modal transportation projects such as the Alameda Corridor
project and associated port expansions, including the application
of information management systems for tracking and scheduling
freight movements and coordinating truck, rail and ship-mode
transfers to improve port operations.
Finally, CCDoTT will serve as an
international model for incorporating technological advancements
that assure a vibrant healthy future for the transportation
industry in southern California.
CCDoTT will work with the local community
and area industries in pursuing the objectives of the Center. It
will develop and maintain effective and comprehensive information
dissemination programs, including an exciting and useful Web site.
An ongoing CCDoTT area of emphasis will be
to pursue outside funding to support the Center’s activities.
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